Pilotwings is a Nintendo video game for the Super NES/Super Famicom, originally released in 1990, and included with the system in some early packages. A flight simulator game, Pilotwings features lessons and goals in light plane flight, rocketbelt, hang glider, and skydiving. Added to these are bonus stages which, like many secrets in 1990s vintage Nintendo titles, change your character's iconic representation to a cute cartoonish animal--in this case a penguin, albatross, and stork. Levels involving helicopter gunships also exist.
The game, along with F-Zero, is well-known for extensive use of the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 graphics, which allows rotation, scaling, and various other effects to be used on a flat image to create a 3D effect. Because the game does not use "true" 3D technology (as opposed to the Super Nintendo game Star Fox), in Pilotwings, the buildings, runway, trees, and so on are all "painted" flat on the ground plane; they appear to stick out of the ground when the player's viewpoint is far above.
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1. The Kid
20 Feb 2007, 20:04 GMT
A very unique game. take advantage of this game hang gliding , sky diving , flying (plane& heli's) and jet paking around makethis truly a one of a kind game
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2. Mendez
12 Mar 2007, 19:41 GMT
It is really good, I had it on the SNES, though I'm not sure I'll make the download...
It depends on what games come out on the VC and Wii at the time really!
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3. Jazzem
12 Mar 2007, 22:21 GMT
Oh gosh, don't release this again Nintendo! I love the game so much, I know I won't be able to resist getting it again
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4. RSENA
22 Mar 2007, 15:48 GMT
Awesome game. Actually, I liked this one more than the N64 3D version. I will get it a soon it is released.
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5. Kenjara
26 Mar 2007, 12:16 GMT
Cant wait for this one! Hopefully it will be closly followed by the n64 version which was even better. I never actually owned a nintendo console before the cube so the only time ive got to play these are on emulators or at a friends house. I loved the sky diving/parachuting on a target from this
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6. Mirokunite
26 Mar 2007, 19:28 GMT
This was a really fun game back in the day. But I still want the N64 version!
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7. Kevin
30 Mar 2007, 14:16 GMT
I'll take Pilotwings 64 over this one. Don't get me wrong, the SNES is pretty good too.
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8. ante
06 Apr 2007, 22:44 GMT
one of the best game on snes. the 64 version was not that good. I will get it a soon it is released.
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9. SKTTR
12 Jun 2007, 12:41 GMT
Both are good games. They are very different from each other.
If you don't know them and want to fly around in parachutes, rocketbelts, hanggliders, helicopters, flying cannons, and other cool stuff, get both versions.
I would give them both a chance if I didn't already bought the originals back then. the N64 one is of course technically much more advanced than the SNES one.
Both: 4/5 Stars
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10. sashaboo
17 Jun 2007, 15:43 GMT
Pilotwings was a hugley enjoyable and challenging game for the SNES and was used as a base to form the technichally more advanced and improved N64 version. I will not hesitate to download this for the wii and i hope a wii version of pilotwings comes out.
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11. Jamie
01 Jul 2007, 11:33 GMT
I used to love this game when i was younger, and will definitely be purchasing it. I never played the 64 version but im sure ill be wanting to try it on the VC.
I also hope that a Wii version is in the works.
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12. Alan
02 Jul 2007, 02:24 GMT
This can't come soon enough! The SNES version played much better than the N64 version in IMO but both are still great fun to play. I played this on an import Super Famicom when it first came out and along with Super Mario World it consumed my summer holiday! Plus, it's got the best music of any SNES game. Does anyone know of a release date in Europe?
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13. Mendez
11 Jul 2007, 01:03 GMT
It's a great game, and worth the download if you're into that type of thing. I would be downloading it, but I have my SNES set up again now due to impatience making it pointless for me to rebuy. Doh!
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14. michinmuri
06 Aug 2007, 14:47 GMT
A great game. I absoultely love it, and want the N64 version even more. I'm a bit of a sucker for flight sims and plane games (especially Ace Combat series on PS2) and this game is highly entertaining. I can't wait for it!
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15. sashaboo
10 Aug 2007, 16:30 GMT
Jamie- if you loved the SNES pilotwings then im pretty sure you wont be dissapointed with the N64 version. In my opinion its one of the best sequels ever made as well as being in my top five games ever. The more you play it the more addicted you get.The flying is awsome in pilotwings64. Oh and by the way, with a lot of dedication i managed to get a perfect score on every single test in the game so see if you or anyone reading here can match that and i will be impressed.
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16. Spivsy
18 Aug 2007, 18:08 GMT
Meh, I prefer the n64 version. cannoning them into a statue of mario was fun.
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17. LikwidSnaque
29 Aug 2007, 09:28 GMT
This game is just plain, straight-up better than the N64 version, but I'll tell you all that Wings 2 was better, IMHO. I tell you this with a straight face too... I'd love to see Wings 2 on the VC...
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18. Chris
02 Nov 2007, 03:40 GMT
Hurry up Pilotwings!
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19. LazerGun
11 Dec 2007, 23:58 GMT
Fun game, but I think it gets a little too tough in the latter stages.
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20. Roo
06 Mar 2008, 19:47 GMT
"This game is just plain, straight-up better than the N64 version..."
SCREAM! No way! This is like the N64 version, only with worse graphics, sound, gameplay and lastability! But still, it's Pilotwings! And Pilotwings is mint!
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21. captain-banana
04 May 2008, 09:25 GMT
the 64 version was/is awesome!!! lets hope big N gives us the 64 one soon!!! its at the top of my list! even above majoras mask
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